Thread: Medical Incident - Some learnings for your first aid kit.

great read.....and a wakeup call for us all.... I sat on my pack years ago and knife went through sheath,out through side of pack and cut across my shin,wrapped in scrarf and carried on for the week,no big deal untill I went to remove it later.
I know how you feel about that last backsteak..... I had hindquarters hanging in garage and went to bone it out,slid knife around it and sliced through end of ring finger of left hand.....Ive cut myself many times over the years but this one haunts me...I can still feel the knife sliding through when I think on it...Mrs bought me a mesh glove after this...why the hell didnt I do it years ago??? all the dressing out of animals and fish I do at home now..the glove goes on.
insulation tape and a hunk of rag/teeshirt /hanky can do amazing things at a pinch... the most important thing in my first aid kit is the bit kept between my ears.
having started out as SAR volinteer my first aid kit for that is its safe to say a lot bigger than what Id normally carry.